Reconstruction Era Quiz 3&4

The _____ Party was the dominant political party during Reconstruction.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Know-Nothing

• Whig

The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.

• zero

• very small

• about half of all government officials in the South

• nearly all government officials in the South

Carpetbaggers and scalawags supported the _____ Party in the South.

• Dixicrat

• Republican

• States' Rights

• Democratic

____ was the first African American elected to the United States Senate.

• Blanche Bruce

• Josiah T. Walls

• Hiram Revels

• Jonathan C. Gibbs

Which word is closest in meaning to scalawag?

• hero

• scoundrel

• sharecropper

• rebel

Scalawags were ____.

• white Northerners

• white Southerners

• Southern African Americans

• Northern African Americans

Many Northern whites who moved to the South after the Civil War were called _____ by Southerners.

• scalawags

• scoundrels

• carpetbaggers

• the Ku Klux Klan

The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.

• increased

• decreased

• decreased for children and increased for adults

• increased for children and decreased for adults

Most schools built during Reconstruction were _____.

• designed to educate sharecroppers

• segregated

• integrated

• boarding schools

In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?

• a percentage of the crop

• profits from crop sales

• seeds, tools, and a mule

• money for rent